Cartridge-loader



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CARTRIDGE LOADER. N0. 395.858.

Patented Jan. 8, 1889.

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N. PETERS. PhNmI-Hlwgnpher. Washiniun. 0.C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES V. THOMPSON, OF FORT MADISON, IOWA.

CARTRI DG E-LOADER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,858, dated January 8, 1889.

Application tiled October 9, 1888. Serial No. 287,687. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern: v

Be it known that. I, JAMES V. THOMPSON, of Fort Madison,in the county of Lee and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Cartridge-Loader, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in cartridge-loaders, and has for its object to provide a machine of simple and durable construction and which may be expeditiously and conveniently manipulated without danger of exploding the primer.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a front elevation of the machine partly in sect-ion. Fig. 2 is a plan view, with the covers of the various receptacles open; and Fig. 3 is a detail section of the filling cup and tube.

In carrying out the invention, A represents a base ot any suitable construction, and B a T-standard attached to the base, preferably near one end, at the back. Upon the extremities of the horizontal member of the standard B a threaded lug, b, is formed, and upon said lugs a powder and a shot magazine, O and C', are respectively secured. The magazines are preferably cylindrical in contour, and pro-A vided with a hinged top, d, and au interiorlythreaded collar, d', upon the bottom, purposed to receive the threaded lugs h. \Vithin each magazine, preferably at one side near the top, a bar, d'2, is attached, whereby the powder or shot in the graduate employed may be eveued off bypassing the said graduate beneath the said bar. The top d is slotted in the ange to receive the bar. About the center of the base a second standard, D, is projected upward, having at or near the center two horizontal arms, e. e', extending in opposite directions. The one, c, which passes in front of one magazine, terminates opposite the space intervening the two magazines in a vertical sleeve, e?, preferably provided with two perpendicular bores, e3 and e4.

In the upper end of the standard D one end of a lever, E, is pivoted, the pivotal pin passing through a longitudinal slot in the said lever, as best shown in Fig. l. The pivotal end of the lever and the horizontal arm c of the standard D are connected by a spiral or coil spring, E. A rod, F, is pivoted to the said lever at or near the center of the same, which rod passes through the bore e3 of the sleeve e2, and is provided at the lower end with a head, F', of a contour and size to neatly it into a cartridge-shell.

A short standard, G, is secured to the base at one side of the main standard D, upon which an angled arm, Il, is held to slide, being guided by a rib, g, formed at one side edge of the standard, as best shown in Fig. 2.

rIhe vertical member of the angled arm is slotted and adj ustably held in connection with the standard by a set-screw, g. At the extremity of the horizontal member of the angled arm H a cup, H', is formed, provided with a vertical bore, h, extending from top to bottom, the upper half of the said bore being tapering, as best shown in Fig. 3. The cup H is also provided with a rabbet, h', in the bottom, and a spout or side projection, h2, open at the top. The spout or projection h2 is adapted to receive the lower end of a lling-tube, IP, which tube extends vertically upward through the bore e4 of the sleeve e2, and is ilared outward at the upper end to pro vide a funnel-mouth, H3.

Beneath the cup H a metal disk, K, is se-v -head of the shell, is secured to the base at any suitable point, and the said base is fixedly held upon any desired support by a clamp, N.

In operation the cup Il is elevated and the IOO open edge of the shell N introduced therein at the bottom. The head of the shell is then made to rest upon the cushion, the primer being over the aperture in said cushion, and the cup is adjusted to a contact with the shell. If the shell is made of paper, before being introduced into the cup it is jacketed in a metal casing, N2. The powder is taken from the receptacle by any suitable graduate and the surplus is removed by passing` the top of the `graduate under and in contact with the bar d2. The powder is emptied into the rillingtube, from whence it passes through. the cup into the shell, a wad is introduced into the cup and rammed down upon the powder by .manipulating the lever E, and the shot and a second Wad are introduced in the same manner. XVhen a paper shell is used, the cap of the shell after being illed is introduced between the jaws of the extractor and thus held in a fixed position. The jacket may then be readily slipped off.

It will be observed that by means of the construction of the loader it may be used in any place where there is a support, and a clamp need not necessarily be employed; or, for instance, it may be placed upon the ground, upon a stump, in a boat, wagon, or upon a counter. A

Cast-iron and glass are not used in the construction of the loader, as l propose to employ reiined malleable iron, wrought-iron, and tin for the several parts and brass at any point where there is friction.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination, with an essentially vertical standard, a horizontal. arm projected from the same, a vertical sleeve integral with the said arm, and a spring-actuated lever pivoted in the top of said standard, of a plunger- A carrying rod attached to the lever and reciprocating in said sleeve, a vertically-adjustable arm, a filling-cup attached to the arm, a disk beneath the cup, anda cushion embedded in said disk, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with an essentially ver- 3. The combination, with an essentially ver- A tical standard, a horizontal arm projected from the same, a Avertical sleeve integral with said arm, a spring-actuated lever pivoted in said standard, and a detachable shot and powder magazine provided with a transverse scraper-bar, of a plunger-rod pivoted to the lever and reciprocating in said sleeve, a vertically-adjustable arm, a bottomless spouted cup attached to said arm, a filling-tube passin g through the sleeve into the cup, a disk beneath the cup, and an apertured elastic cushion embedded in said disk, substantially as shown and described.

JAS. V. THOMPSON. Vitness es:

WILL LowDER, GHAs. H. LowDER. 

